Tile.



J. A. JONES.

TILE. 7 APPLICATION FILED JULY 17,1908.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910. v

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TILE.

Spelflcation of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 23, 1910.

Application filed July 17, 1908. Serial No. 144,010.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN A. J ONES, a citizen of the United States of America, and resident of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton,

, State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tiles, of which the following 1s a specification.

My invention relates to a tile covering for walls, floors, etc. Its object is such a covering, in which each tile is held to the wall or; floor firmly along each side by nails, which are hidden from view, and of which a minimum number are required to attain the result and in which an efiicient keyeseat is formed between the tiles for concrete.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a tile embo ying my invention. Fig. 2 is an elevation of a tile construction embodying my ina", a of the plate, A". The intervening the edge a, of the strip, a, is of dimensions such that groove, a,

surrounds the tile. In securing these tiles to the wall, B, a row of nails, 0, may be driven into the wall so as to leave their heads projecting out beyond the wall a distance equal to the thickness of the plate, A. Thenthe first row of tile are placed so that the heads of the nails, 0, take into the groove a, and late, A, overlaps the nails. Then nails, 0 are driven into the walls, so that their heads en age the edge, a, of the tile. There are re erabl' two nails placed the tiles made, up place is similar to that, shown in Figs. 1 and the tiles bein tile. After the rows ofnails, a, have been secured in place, the second row of tiles are placed with their edges, a, projecting over the nails, 0', and over the edge, a, of the first row of tiles; The nails,'e, hold the adjacent ed es of the tiles firmly to the wall, B and li ewise serve to properly space the tiles apart, The projectin ends a, of one tile overlaps the end, a 0 its adjacent tile. After the tiles have been thus secured in place, the concrete, D, isgrouted into the grooves between ad acent rows of tiles.

In the modification shown in Figs. 4-and 5, while the sides of the plate A, are staggered with the sides of the ate, A", in a manner similar to the sides 0 the plates, A,

and A, the ends a a ,of the plate, A,-

are m the same plane with the ends, a, a, of the plates A. The manner of securing of the plates, A, A, in

2, except that instead of having the ends of the tiles overlap each other, they are held in place by the heads of nails, 0.

' In both modifications, a base plate, E, may

row of tiles.

be used to cover the lower edges of the first jecting from the upper half of one of its sides and a ove formed between the flange and the ower half of the corresponding side, and a second flange pro 'ectin from the lower half of the opposite si e of t e tile, placed side by side with the first named anges projecting over the second flanges, and a senes of nails fonholdin the tiles to the wall, the head of each nal holdingLthe abutting edges of two tiles to the we v JOHN A. JONES.

Witnesses: v I v A L. P. Hazmz,

W F. MURRAY. 

